Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power
Statistical Mechanics
2015-05-14 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We evaluate the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum-dot Carnot heat engine. The universal value of the coefficients at the linear and quadratic order in the temperature gradient are reproduced. Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency is recovered in the limit of weak dissipation.
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@article{arxiv.1001.2192,
title = {Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power},
author = {Massimiliano Esposito and Ryoichi Kawai and Katja Lindenberg and Christian Van den Broeck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2192},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure